Almanak 2020 Quotes & Sayings

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes

Buzz Lukens took that fateful step ... — Dan Quayle

When you develop your talent and ability, you develop more confidence". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I always thought that funerals were meant for the living to say good-bye to a loved one. I never would have guessed that it's actually the other way around. — Anthony Greer

..."That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?" "Yes." Billy, in fact had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three lady bugs embedded in it. "Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is now why. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. — Helen Suzman

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level. — Francis Collins

The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover larger portions of it. Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it. — David Hume

Proverbs 25:28 says, "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control." In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside. — Myles Munroe

I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget. — Jodi Picoult